Over 100,000 may be dead, the capital Port-Au-Prince has been levelled and the calamity-scarred organisation Mr Field works for has labelled the Haiti earthquake the worst disaster in its history.

Mr Field, a United Nations worker, was in his Port-au-Prince apartment when the earthquake hit on January 12.

Via e-mail Mr Field explained the situation to the Daily Liberal.

“I had just walked into my unit kitchen when the earthquake hit, I was able to get outside, but the building has been condemned,” he said.

“Just now a local friend came up to me as I was writing to ask how I was. When I asked how his family was, I found his mother, brother, sister and brother-in-law were lost.

“Every single one of my Haitian friends have similar experiences,”

Mr Field is a communications and IT technician with the UN and has been stationed in the Caribbean country for five years. The UN Headquarters was levelled by the earthquake and a spokesperson has confirmed 49 of the organisation’s personnel are dead and 300 are missing. Mr Field said he hadn’t had time to think about the tragedy in which he was surrounded.

“Well we haven’t had much chance to slow down, and our workload ahead doesn’t allow much time to think, but it will hit in a little while,” he said.

“My day now involves the installation of communications equipment to the UN Mission and all external Search and Rescue teams.

“We have a new site to install by the weekend for up to 500 displaced UN personnel and new representatives that were lost in our headquarter’s collapse.

“Maybe some previous experience in a similar circumstance has helped me here, but we just have to see how it goes.”

In 2002 Mr Field was stationed in East Timor with the UN. Mr Field met up with his brother Brett while taking a weekend off in Bail. At 11pm on October 12 the two brothers were only a short distance from Paddy’s Bar when the Bali bombings occurred killing 202 people.

“We were right in the street,” Brett said.

“That was horrific because he lost a few colleagues.

“Obviously a few of his colleagues have died in Haiti as well.”

Mr Field said he would be coming home from Haiti “as soon as possible to see mum and the relatives, and a couple of friends that might remember me, but I think that will be two or three moths away for now.”

To help with crisis in Haiti Mr Field said Oxfam and Caritas were two “very good organisations and on the ground here now.”

Oxfam: 1800 088 110

Caritas: 1800 024 413